HIST2620 Chapter 18

In the Progressive era, industry was on the rise and agriculture was in decline.

False

Progressives worked to reform the structure of government to increase the power of political bosses.

False

According to the Commission on Industrial Relations, more than two-thirds of the country's mining and manufacturing workers lived in more prosperity than they had ever known.

False

By 1912, the Socialist Party had dwindled, losing many of their political office posts and lessening ties with radical newspapers and magazines.

False

Massachusetts became the first state east of the Mississippi to allow women the right to vote in presidential elections.

False

The American Federation of Labor mainly represented unskilled industrial workers.

False

The Underwood Tariff increased duties on imports and decreased the graduated income tax on the richest 5 percent of Americans.

False

The creation of parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite allowed Indians who hunted and fished there to remain as part of the heritage of the land

False

The first president to hold regular press conferences in order to influence public opinion directly was Theodore Roosevelt.

False

Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" called for vigorous federal intervention in the economy, while Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" called on government to stay out of business affairs.

False

The Progressive-era economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called

Fordism.

Which of the following is not attributed to Eugene V. Debs?

He disliked the idea of the socialist gospel as it promoted equality, self-government, and freedom.

In her influential book, Woman and Economics, Charlotte Perkins Gilman reinforced this idea.

Woman's freedom lay through the workplace.

The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes

y defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.

Who was the early-twentieth-century governor of Wisconsin who believed that the state was a "laboratory for democracy," developed what came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea, taxed corporate wealth, and initiated state regulation of public utilities?

Robert M. La Follette

Who was the Progressive-era mayor of Toledo who founded night schools, built new parks, established free kindergartens, and supported the right of workers to unionize?

Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones

The founder of the Oregon System of direct legislature was

William U'Ren.

The series of mass strikes called the "Uprising of the 20,000" in New York included

a force of "traditional" Americans who did not want immigrant takeover of their jobs.

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

assassination of President McKinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act

The Progressive era was a time of

explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, increased industrial production, and a "Golden Age" for American agriculture.

From 1910 to 1916, the price of a Model T automobile approximately

halved.

Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as

muckrakers.

A leader in the new feminism, Margaret Sanger

opened a clinic and began distributing contraceptive devices to poor women.

The Keating-Owen Act

outlawed child labor in the manufacture of goods sold in interstate commerce.

The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices was called

scientific management.

The amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that United States senators will be chosen by popular vote rather than by state legislatures is

the Seventeenth Amendment.

After William Taft fired the head of the U.S. Forest Service over accusations of business interests, Theodore Roosevelt launched an independent campaign for president as head of the new

True

Julia Lathrop was the first woman to head a federal agency; in 1912, she took up leadership of the Children's Bureau.

True

Mabel Dodge's New York living room was the location of a famed "salon" in which bohemian intellectuals gathered to discuss issues of sexual liberation, modern trends in art, and labor unrest.

True

One result of Muller v. Oregon was that women were still considered weak, dependent, and incapable of enjoying the same economic rights as men.

True

The Federal Reserve System (1913) and the Federal Trade Commission (1914) were major examples of the remarkable expansion of the role of the federal government in the economy during the Progressive era.

True

The Sixteenth Amendment made the income tax constitutional.

True

The obligation to devote oneself to parents, husband, and children was what Jane Addams called the "family claim."

True

Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president in American history.

True

Of all the mass consumption activities, this was the most popular form of mass entertainment.

vaudeville

The 1914 Ludlow Massacre was

an attack by militia against a tent city of striking workers in Colorado.

Between 1901 and 1914,

13 million immigrants came to the United States.

President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program was called the

"Square Deal."

This term asserted governmental action to address urban problems and the insecurities of working-class life.

"social democracy" b. "social liberty" c. "social legislation" d. "social republicanism"

What was the name of the organization that sponsored the 1914 debate at New York City's Cooper Union on the question "What is feminism?", and whose definition of feminism emphasized women's emancipation "both as a human being and a sex-being"?

. Heterodoxy

The first women to become mayors of major cities, governors, and members of Congress hailed from the West and included all of the following except

Edith Wharton, Illinois.

The point at which most European immigrants passed into the United States was

Ellis Island, New York.

Which of the following is not attributed to William "Big Bill" Haywood?

He ran an unsuccessful attempt for the position of President of the United States.

Which of the following is not attributed to Louis D. Brandeis?

He successfully argued in Muller v. Oregon that women were men's equal, thus their maximum working hours should be the same as those of men.

Those who embraced the new "bohemia" included

Indians who wanted equal opportunities in the industrial revolution.

What was the name of the organization that advocated a workers' revolution to seize control of the means of production and abolish the state, and which organized women, blacks, as Asian-Americans, as well as white men?

Industrial Workers of the World

When faced with the possible elimination of their unions and a reduction in their wages, 10,000 black and white dockworkers held a strike in 1907 in

New Orleans.

During the Progressive era, the largest city in the United States was

New York.

Ida Tarbell tirelessly worked to expose

Standard Oil Company.

Why were the doors locked during the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire?

The owners didn't want women to have too many bathroom breaks.

The conservationist movement is most closely related to which president?

Theodore Roosevelt

All of the following were muckrakers except

Theodore Roosevelt.

Another important example of federal intervention and a new activism on the part of the national government into the economy was passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) by which the federal government became the agent policing the labeling and quality of food and drugs.

True

As a response to the Panic of 1907, Congress created the Federal Reserve System, consisting of twelve regional banks.

True

By 1910, more than 40 percent of New York City's population had been born abroad.

True

Cities expanded so rapidly that by 1920 for the first time more Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas.

True

Directly or indirectly, J. P. Morgan controlled 40 percent of the financial and industrial capital in the United States in the opening years of the twentieth century.

True

During the Progressive era, numerous products utilized the image of the Statue of Liberty as a sales device.

True

During the Progressive era, the Imperial Valley of California was transformed by irrigation and became a major area of commercial farming.

True

Immigrant women were largely confined to low-paying factory employment. True

True

During the Progressive era, economic production shifted from ____ to ____.

capital goods, consumer products

Between 1900 and 1904 membership in the American Federation of Labor

exploded to triple their earlier membership numbers.

Henry Ford's factory adopted a method of production known as

the moving assembly line.

A major limitation to the new consumer freedom included

the unequal distribution of income throughout the country..

Pope Leo XIII's 1894 Rerum Novarum and the Catholic priest Father John A. Ryan's A Living Wage (1906) called for all of the following except

the view that the Catholic Church should in no way become involved in discussions of wages, working conditions, and the ethical basis of the free market economy.

Causes of the "new immigration" included all of the following except

tightened immigration laws in the United States.

During the Progressive era, city managers and nonpartisan commissions ran many municipalities.

true